“It’s unfortunate that still in that gangster rap world that’s what you’re dealing with – the gangster lifestyle, if you will,” the top cop said on the Len Berman and Todd Schnitt show on 710 WOR radio.

“A lot of them are not talking, as is usually the case, but we’ve got great detectives and we’ll be able to bring this to closure,” he added.

De Blasio took exception to Bratton’s broad stroke about the rap world culture.

Asked if the rap world fosters violence, de Blasio cited his biracial children.

“I think rap like any other genre is very, very diverse. I am relatively current because of the musical choices of Dante and Chiara, so I hear a lot,” he said. “Some is thoughtful and socially conscious and some I find distasteful. But I could say that about a lot of genres. I could say that about popular culture in general. I think our culture glorifies violence. I think it’s an American problem.”

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Bratton, who said police expected to quickly wrap up their probe into the shooting, also labeled rap artists as “basically thugs that basically celebrate the violence.”

“Unfortunately, that violence oftentimes manifests itself during their performances and that’s exactly what happened last evening,” he said on WCBS 880.

“It’s unfortunate,” he said, adding that some of the successful artists have “wealth and fame” and “they were able to turn their lives around” — but “they continue hanging out with the same people they hung out with when they came out of that world of desperation, poverty and crime.”

Bratton added that the genre often celebrates violence, the degradation of women and the drug culture.

“It’s unfortunate as they get fame and fortune that some of them are just not able to get out of the life, if you will,” he said.